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...impressed on the electric power cables. Through this broad channel they ride easily so that messages are clearly heard by any patrol car, provided it is within a half mile of the line. The great power flow of 275,000 volts so smooth that the radio signals riding piggyback are not distorted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Radio Ride | 6/28/1937 | See Source »

...admirers the picture should be the most effective of the rapid series of four she has made since becoming a star last winter. In the course of her impersonation Shirley Temple sings two songs (Animal Crackers in My Soup, When I Grow Up), impersonates Whistler's mother, rides piggyback, does a solo tap-dance on a piano top, learns how to use a finger bowl. Her bridge work, replacing a baby tooth lost last spring, is unnoticeable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Aug. 12, 1935 | 8/12/1935 | See Source »

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